Carpet-lining



(Specimens.)

W E. TURNER. CARPET LINING. No. 315,678. Patented Apr. 14, 1885;

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WENDELL E. TURNER, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARPET-LINING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,678, dated April 14, 1885.

Application filed January 15, 1884. (Spccirnensl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WENDELL E. TURNER, acitizen of the United States, residingin Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lining and Packing Material, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention is more particularly intended for carpet-lining, but it may be employed for other lining or packing purposes.

Lining or packing material has been made by quilting a bat or lap of cotton, wool, jute, or other material, and then cementing to each side thereof a layer of paper. Such material has also been made by sewing together by lines of chaiustitches two layers of paper and an interposed filling of cotton, wool, jute, or other material; and it is to this latter class of lining or packing material that my invention relates.

In order to secure the stitches and prevent them from tearing through the paper and unraveling in case of the thread breaking, it has been proposed to cement strips of paper to the lines of loops and to the paper covering adjacent to such lines of loops. In applying such strips of paper adhesive substance is applied to their under sides, and they are then pressed down upon the stitches and paper, and hence the stitches are cemented to the strip, and not necessarily to the paper covering or envelope which contains the filling.

I have discovered that the stitches can be very effectively secured without any strips of paper, and by cementing them directly to one of the layers of paper of the lining; and the invention consists in a lining or packing composed of two layers of paper, and interposed filling sewed together by lines of stitches,and having a line or stripe of glue or other adhesive substance applied directly to the paper along and on both sides of each line of stitching,whereby the loops of the lines of stitching are cemented directly to the exterior of one of the thicknesses of paper comprised in the lining or packing.

The invention also consists in a lining or packing of the kind above described, having a covering of granular or flocculeut material applied to thestripe of glue which secures the stitching to the paper.

The accompanying drawing represents a piece of lining or packing material embodying my invention. terial is composed of two thicknesses of paper. A A, and an interposed filling or layer, B, of cotton, wool, jute, or other fibrous material.

a a a are lines or rows of chain-stitches, by which the several materials of which the lining is composed are secured together. The lining may have as many lines or rows of stitching as are desirable. Along each line a of stitching I apply a line or stripe, at, of glue or other adhesive substance. By this means the thread is cemented to the paper A, and is prevented from unraveling in case it becomes broken or cut. I may apply a covering ma terial over the lines of stitching.

In making the lining, the stripe of adhesive substance or cement is applied directly to the bare lines of stitches, and the loops of the stitches are directly secured, without other means, on the layer of paper A. The line of stitching at the right-hand side of the drawing has no covering save the glue or adhesive substance a, and this sufiices to secure the stitches permanently to the paper A. I have also here shown one line of stitching as covered by a. strip, 1), of paper or other material. This strip is secured to the paper A by the glue or adhesive substance a,- but the glue or adhesive substance is first applied directly to the paper A and the strip is afterward pressed down thereon. I have here shown the strip 21 as partly turned back, in order to expose the line of stitching a and the glue (4. I may apply to the lines of. stitching, after they are cemented to the paper A, a covering of sawdust, or other granular or flocculent material. I have shown the left-hand line of stitches c as so covered throughout most of its length, a designating the covering. The substance thus applied will be secured by the adhesive substance a. The covering substance 0 may be cedar sawdust, or other substance obnoxious to vermin, and will then serve to keep moths and other vermin from the lining or packing. The glue or adhesive substance and the covering maybe applied over the stitches The lining or packing ma- V on one or both sides of the lining or packing material.

I am aware that it is not new in the manufacture of carpet-lining to glue a strip of paper along and over a line or row of stitching in order to cover the same and preventunraveling, and I do not claim this broadly, as

of my invention.

According to my invention I apply glue or adhesive substance along and on both sides of the line of stitching, and thus cement the stitching directly to the papcr,which forms the exterior of the lining or packing, whether or not any covering for the glue or adhesive substance is used.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A lining or packing material composed of two thicknesses of paper, A A, and an interposed filling, B, secured together by a line or row of stitching, a, and having a line or stripe of adhesive substance, a, applied directly to the paper and line of stitching, whereby the line of stitching is cemented directly to the exterior of one of the thicknesses of paper A in the lining or packing, substan tially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. A lining or packing composed of two thicknesses of paper, A A, and an interposed filling, B, secured together by a line or row of stitching, a, and having a line or stripe of ad hesive substance, a, applied directly to the paper andline of stitching, and a covering of granular or flocculent material secured by the adhesive substance over the line of stitching, substantially as and for. the purpose herein described.

WENDELL E. TURNER Witnesses:

ANDREW J. JENNINGS, JAMES M. MORTON. 

